Definitions from Wiktionary (quarantine)
▸ noun: A period of 40 days, particularly
▸ noun: (historical law) The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.
▸ noun: (historical) The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
▸ noun: (historical) A 40-day period formerly imposed by the French king upon warring nobles during which they were forbidden from exacting revenge or continuing to fight.
▸ noun: A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
▸ noun: (figurative) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
▸ noun: A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
▸ noun: (politics, figurative) A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
▸ noun: (computing, figurative) An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc..
▸ noun: (computing, figurative) The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
▸ verb: (transitive) To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
▸ verb: (figurative, transitive) Synonym of isolate more generally.
▸ verb: (figurative, transitive) Synonym of restrict.
▸ noun: (dated) Synonym of Mount of Temptation
▸ noun: (Christianity, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of Quarantine: the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho. [(dated) Synonym of Mount of Temptation]
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▸ noun: A period of 40 days, particularly
▸ noun: (historical law) The 40-day period during which a widow is entitled to remain in her deceased husband's home while any dower is collected and returned.
▸ noun: (historical) The 40-day period of isolation required after 1448 at Venice's lazaret to avoid renewed outbreaks of the bubonic plague and identical policies in other locations.
▸ noun: (historical) A 40-day period formerly imposed by the French king upon warring nobles during which they were forbidden from exacting revenge or continuing to fight.
▸ noun: A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
▸ noun: (figurative) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.
▸ noun: A place where such isolation is enforced, a lazaret.
▸ noun: (politics, figurative) A blockade of trade, suspension of diplomatic relations, or other action whereby one country seeks to isolate another.
▸ noun: (computing, figurative) An isolation of one program, drive, computer, etc. from the rest of a computer network to limit the damage from a bug, computer virus, etc..
▸ noun: (computing, figurative) The program, drive, computer, etc. thus isolated.
▸ verb: (transitive) To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
▸ verb: (intransitive, obsolete) To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
▸ verb: (figurative, transitive) Synonym of isolate more generally.
▸ verb: (figurative, transitive) Synonym of restrict.
▸ noun: (dated) Synonym of Mount of Temptation
▸ noun: (Christianity, obsolete) Alternative letter-case form of Quarantine: the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho. [(dated) Synonym of Mount of Temptation]
▸ Also see quarantine
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